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Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 06, 2009 5 Comments
Snooze. Phillip Kennicott at The Washington Post engages in detailed analysis and comparison of Joker posters picturing Jack Nicholson, Heath Ledger and Barack Obama. The analysis is contrived in the extreme and worthy of the worst Kremlinologists, who extrapolated the Soviet power structure by watching...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on August 04, 2009 3 Comments
The fight over nationalized health care is at the heart of a larger societal battle over the role of the individual. At stake is whether individual health care choices will be subservient to the state’s larger health care interest by forcing the individual to submit...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2009 15 Comments
Democrats are tripping over the conspiracy theory that Barack Obama was not born in Hawaii and that there is a cover-up by Hawaiian state officials, among others, who falsely have issued a “certificate of live birth.” On the one hand, Democrats and supportive blogs push...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 31, 2009 2 Comments
The meeting at the White House yesterday between Barack Obama, Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and James Crowley (with Joe Biden as the fourth wheel) has been dubbed the “Beer Summit.” Perhaps a better name would be the Thanksgiving Summit (emphasis mine): Pres. Obama: “I am...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 30, 2009 11 Comments
Blogger and media professor Jeff Cohen argues at HuffPo that the reason Obama’s health care plans are failing is that the liberal netroots are not pushing hard enough for a full-blown, nationalized, “single-payer,” “one nation, one plan” style medical system: Activists must recognize the surest...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2009 8 Comments
Will Newsweek ever stop trying to get attention by declaring things coming to an end? First it was the end of Christian America. Then the end of the recession. Now the end of monogamy as the basis for socially acceptable relationships, in a lead article...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 29, 2009 2 Comments
“Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun,” so said Noel Coward.* So must it seem to Barack Obama and the leading Democrats who are trying to force through a vote on health care “reform” without anyone having a fair opportunity to read...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2009 4 Comments
Gary Margolis, Executive Director of College Mental Health Services and Associate Professor in the English Department at Middlebury College in Vermont was moved to pen a poem in support of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The poem was titled “Ajar” and was published at the Boston...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 28, 2009 28 Comments
I have not devoted much attention to the Barack Obama “Birth Certificate” conspiracy theories, because I have been bogged down debunking so many other conspiracy theories, like Andrew Sullivan’s Trig Palin birth conspiracy theory and the recent theory that the Bush administration “concealed” evidence as...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 0 Comments
Wendy Murphy, the lawyer for Lucia Whalen, who placed the 911 call which led to the arrest of Henry Louis Gate, Jr., was interviewed tonight on the Greta Van Susteren show. Murphy, speaking for Whalen, stated that Whalen heard Gates screaming at police, but refused...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 27, 2009 1 Comment
The Cambridge Police have released the 911 call by Lucia Whalen about a possible break-in at the home of Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Here is the complete audio. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qg7mHjr_d0c] The interesting part of the call is the caller, Lucia Whalen, is very circumscribed...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 25, 2009 9 Comments
The Congressional Budget Office once again has poked a massive hole in the Democratic health care “reform” bubble, in a report issued today. One of the key elements of the Democratic proposals is to hand over the power to make cost cuts to an unelected,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 24, 2009 2 Comments
Leave it to The NY Times to create a faux historical context to absolve Barack Obama of criticism over Obama’s statement that the Cambridge Police acted “stupidly” with regard to the arrest of Henry Louis Gates, Jr. What faux historical context, you ask? The Times...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 23, 2009 1 Comment
William F. Buckley, Jr. famously said: I am obliged to confess I should sooner live in a society governed by the first two thousand names in the Boston telephone directory than in a society governed by the two thousand faculty members of Harvard University. Reflecting...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 8 Comments
“Keep your laws off my body” has been a rallying cry of liberals, and the pro-choice movement in particular, for decades. The concept is that medical procedures are so intensely personal that government, regardless of its intent, should not be involved in the decisions. Yet...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 22, 2009 3 Comments
“The time for talk is over.” That sentence should be the new slogan of the Obama administration. Forget “Change We Can Believe In” or “Yes We Can.” Those were yesterday’s slogans, when Obama wanted but did not yet have power. The time for talk was...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on July 20, 2009 9 Comments
Harvard Scholar Henry Louis Gates, Jr. was arrested for disorderly conduct. According to news reports, police responded to a call from a neighbor that someone was trying to break into Gates’ house by forcing open the door. It turns out the person trying to break...
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